Thesaurus: relation

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1. n. The act of relating or telling; also, that which is related; recital; account; narration; narrative; as, the relation of historical events.
2. n. The state of being related or of referring; what is apprehended as appertaining to a being or quality, by considering it in its bearing upon something else; relative quality or condition; the being such and such with regard or respect to some other thing; connection; as, the relation of experience to knowledge; the relation of master to servant.
3. n. Reference; respect; regard.
4. n. Connection by consanguinity or affinity; kinship; relationship; as, the relation of parents and children.
5. n. A person connected by cosanguinity or affinity; a relative; a kinsman or kinswoman.
6. n. The carrying back, and giving effect or operation to, an act or proceeding frrom some previous date or time, by a sort of fiction, as if it had happened or begun at that time. In such case the act is said to take effect by relation.
7. n. The act of a relator at whose instance a suit is begun.
8. n. an abstraction belonging to or characteristic of two entities or parts together
9. n. sexual activity between individuals, especially the insertion of a man's penis into a woman's vagina until orgasm and ejaculation occur
10. n. a person related by blood or marriage
11. n. an act of narration
12. n. (law) the principle that an act done at a later time is deemed by law to have occurred at an earlier time